Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-05-12
A THRIVING CITY.
A Few Solid Facts in Regard to Little Rock
Arkansas. the Much Talked-Atout
Metropolis Of IL o Southwest


Little Rock city is puilt on high rolling
pateau on the south side of the Arkansas
river It is the capital of the state. and Is laid
out in broad avenues and substantially
bui Z. Most of the state institutions are
located here also the United States court
house and postoffice, which Is a fine build
ing, having cost S2s5, 600. There is also
United States arsenal located in the city.
The public buildings are valued at 81, O62,-
900. The public and private schools are
admirably conducted and have 5000 pupils
enrol ed. TIE school buildings are valued
at 4hgs5. All religious denominations
are pretty well represented In the churche,
of the city. Church property Is valued at
s 5i0,0. The benevolent associations are
repre- ented by twenty lodges with prop
erty va'ued at $4,000 The merchants
exchange building was built at cost or
s21C0). Banks, capital and surplus b.
600, bonds TO secure circulation, S!s0,O0l.
Loans and discounts, 81, ,333 individual
deposits, $2,300 0l Capitalization city
corporations, si.2OS,OOo The Little Rock
cotton oil mill i'm the South, and
is capitalized at $3OO0,00O; and it
compressed this season aSout 600 bales
of cotton. The business OF this city will
aggregate Sl4 100000 for the year 1856.
The postoflice business for the year 1856 in
etters and postal cards deliver ed l,2s3,56
70 eived |: 'Oi, III. stamps sold 5ls,4 .;
money orders, $l,250,00l Newspaper Of
fees in the city IS; value Of printing estab-
lishments in the city, Sl433OO. Cotton re-
C ired 10 date, I?OOO bales. The : opula.
tion OF the city proper is $4,000. with about
1900 in Argenta and the suburbs. Manu-
featuring is represented by coorerage
companies. furniture factories, planning
mill /, machinery, gin factories, foundries,
wagon and other diversified manufactor-
erecting new mills. There are ten miles of
street railway in operation; seven
miles of water mains and sixteen miles of
gas pipes laid in the streets of the city.
There are also electric light, telegraph
and telephone companies. The ci Y will
soon be paved with granite, and enjoys
the luxury of being free from a heavy
debt its entire Indebtedness being S225, 900,
with an as es ed real estate value of
s5ON6S2; personal property assessment
81, 01a053.
There are two fine railroad bridges across
the Arkansas river at Little Rock, with a
draw span of $50 feet. The railroads di-
verge from this city in five directions
with several more in course of con ,truc-
ton. towards the city.
Information in regard to Little Rock
and Arkansas will be cheerfully furnished
to all applicants addressing the Little
Real Estate Exchange.
Last Sunday ni2ht at San Rafael, Cal.
a Young man mistook his deaf and dumb
iOi PNs '"'NS
through her thigh. Whom he got no an
wer to his cry of hos there" he
banged away.
+. NJ. Davis, known in the Ca ur d Acne
as Dream Davis" who found Dream
iulch in vision and cleaned up $1,000.
has spent all his wealth and committed
suicide at Lo' Angeles, Cal.
The late Paul Feval bee me novelist
VIII, n he was a clerk in Pari mon y lend
er's shop. The histories of his masters
clients suggested his plots.
Secretary Bayard has received from a
lady smoking chair of oak, upholster-
ed in dark brown leather, with a richly
upholstered leg rest.
A Chinaman at Rio Vista, Cal, under
took TO cot some geese with IA 81 otgun.
but in his awkwardness he killed Mrs.
Brady's S-months old baby.
Gen. Boul niger proposes TO restore the
rank OF marshal. There will be three,
con manding the three corps int which
the French army Is div ided.
The drinks consumed at the recent ball
ut the Paris Hotel de Vile included 5 200
books, 200 bottles of champagne, and
500 punches. The sandwiches eaten only
numt cred 1850.
Daniel Manning occup pies one OF the
handsomest villas in Bourne H. nth, on the
outh coast of England. 1t is called "Mer-
nv Vale Hall ~ and /, close to the beach.